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...case you were blissly biking across Europe last week or adrift on a Carnival cruise through the Caribbean, a mass suicide took place Wednesday in a mansion in posh Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a San Diego suburb...
...News has hit troubles on several fronts. After eight years of ratings dominance, Peter Jennings' evening newscast, World News Tonight, has been overtaken in recent weeks by the snazzier, more cleverly packaged NBC Nightly News. Creatively too, ABC's flagship newscast seems adrift, first softening the show to combat NBC, more recently retrenching a bit and trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats...
...return of the man who was bold, decisive and committed to sweeping change. Now, some presidential aides have come to refer to their diminished leader as Yeltsin Number Two, says Quinn-Judge. "It was the second Yeltsin, whose indecision and inactivity throughout 1994 and 1995, who has left Russia adrift." And these days are no better: the government is largely run either by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin or presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais, leaving the largest country in the world on hold. Economic growth remains negative, while millions of people are still without their government pensions or pay. Until...
...They dressed him in a military uniform, stuffed his pockets with small change and the bogus personal papers of one Major Martin, and chained a briefcase to him that contained disinformation about Allied "plans" for a Balkans invasion--when the real target was Sicily. Then they set the body adrift near the Spanish coast. As expected, Spanish officials retrieved the body and passed the briefcase to Nazi agents. They read the plans and alerted their masters, who duly diverted their troops and warships from Sicily...
...early September, according to his own poll, Dole was actually 6 points behind where he was in August. Manafort drafted a 20-page memo dated Sept. 5 titled "Dole Campaign Strategy Document," in which he wrote, "The strategy for the campaign must be finalized now...Otherwise, we will be adrift without a compass...